Little Mary Lake

Drainage: Rock Creek
Approaches: West Fork Rock Creek Trailhead, approximately 12 mi round trip; roughly 2,100 ft of climbing. About 5 mi on trail to Quinnebaugh Meadows, then roughly 1 mi north · From Lake Mary, approximately 0.2 mi southeast
Elevation: 9,948 feet
Fish: No FWP data
Coordinates: 45.14969, -109.56296
Bugs: Minimal on our visit

Getting there

Same walk as Lake Mary. From the West Fork Rock Creek Trailhead, follow good trail about five miles to Quinnebaugh Meadows, then turn north and climb roughly another mile.

Little Mary sits about two tenths of a mile southeast of Lake Mary and roughly sixty feet lower.

The hike

The work is the last mile north out of Quinnebaugh Meadows. Once you are up, the two lakes are close enough that taking both costs almost nothing.

Little Mary is small, around two acres, at 9,948 feet.

Tips & safety

• Navigation: on trail to Lake Mary, then a short drop southeast.

• Camping: we have not scouted sites at Little Mary, so this is terrain description and not a site report. Lake Mary two tenths of a mile northwest has camping near its outlet and some firewood, and that is the better bet for a night up here.

• Fishing: no FWP data. The guide has no entry for Little Mary at all, which means no survey, no stocking record and no species list. Lake Mary next door holds self-sustaining brook trout planted in the 1930s.

• Bugs: minimal on our visit.

• Berries: Keep an eye out for wild strawberries they where pretty plentiful on this journey